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Dreamer Meets Revolutionary

Dreamer Meets Revolutionary by Raza Naeem pays homage to the man he calls �Pakistan�s Gramsci�, the writer Syed Sibte Hasan From the Journal The Friday Times. For original click on the link: Among friends - Sibte Hasan, Dr M. Sarwar and Faiz Ahmed Faiz 31 July marked the 99th birth anniversary of the pioneer of the Progressive Writers� Association (PWA) in undivided India

Letters to Uncle Sam: Saadat Hasan Manto

Source: https://universalpoetries.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/letters-to-uncle-sam-saadat-hasan-manto-2/ Letters to Uncle Sam: Saadat Hasan Manto Between 1951 and 1954, Saadat Hasan Manto wrote nine letters to Uncle Sam (America). Only the first letter was written in 1951. The rest all seem to have been written in 1954. I say �seem to have been written� because three of them bear no date.

Reading Faiz in Beirut.

LINK: http://culturemondo.org/node/650 For original visit above link [For my comrades and poetry aficionados: Fawwaz Trabulsi and Mayssun Sukarieh, and for Raza Mir.] Reading Faiz in Beirut. Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984) is one of the greatest Urdu poets of the 20th century. Born in Sialkot, Punjab, Faiz came of age under colonial rule and in the throes of nationalist anti-colonialism. He

Saadat Hasan Manto

Source: http://herald.dawn.com/tag/progressive-writers-associationVisit the above source for the Original The politics of exclusionBy Sarmad Sehbai | May 14, 2012 Tossing the empty bottle he shouts, �Oh world! Your beauty is your ugliness.� The world stares back at him Their bloodshot eyes rattle with the question �Who nabs the pillar of time By the noose of his drunken breath?